[1] The Rhapsody for piano was a very important work, especially for the fact that it was at that time when Bartók decided to begin his third list of compositions.
In this stage, he decided to embark on a new period in his artistic career where he would mainly explore folk music from Romania and Hungary.
[1] The virtuoso piano writing of the work's "elaborate textures and sectional contrasts" relates to the model of Franz Liszt.
[4] When Bartók decided to submit the composition as an entry in the composers' category of the Anton Rubinstein Competition in Paris, 1905, it received no official recognition.
Reviewer Michael Morrison said: "This Rhapsody must be assessed as a finely crafted but derivative effort, whose length may not be fully justified".